Observing dwarf planets and other large Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) from vantage points
between 8 and 47 au from the Sun, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found diversity in …

Abstract The New Horizons encounter with the Pluto system revealed Pluto to have an
extremely spatially variable surface with expansive dark, bright, and intermediate terrains …

Triton is the largest moon of the Neptune system and possesses a thin nitrogen atmosphere
with trace amounts of carbon monoxide and methane, making it of similar composition to that …

Combining findings from New Horizons' suite of instruments reveals a bimodal haze particle
distribution within Pluto's atmosphere, which haze models have not been able to reproduce …

The flyby of the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 July revealed an unexpected cold
atmosphere of Pluto and confirmed the existence of its atmospheric haze. The observed and …

In this dissertation, I integrate atmospheric modeling and laboratory characterization of
clouds and hazes for temperate sub-Neptune exoplanets and Neptune's moon, Triton. I draw …